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Identifier
MSS114_B02F02_028
Creation Date
2-20-1900
Keywords
Paul Laurence Dunbar, primary sources, Black history, Black poets, prominent Ohioans
Description
Dear Sir:-
Here is a manuscript that you put in our charge for sale so long ago that very likely you have forgotten all about it. Our Commission Department at that time offered the story to every editor who the Reader thought might possibly accept it, but without success.
In clearing out our files we have come across the story and have given it a rereading. The central idea -- that of having the devil in the form of a fascinating young woman tempt an impecunious young man -- is capital, but the story as you have it is not well told. Undoubtedly you would write it in much better form to-day. We advise you to read it through to refresh your memory, and then lay it aside and retell it without reference to the original. Told in proper style, it ought to find a place with either the “Black Cat,” Boston; “The Smart Set,” New York; “Town Topics,” New York; or the “Criterion,” New York.
Regretting that we were not successful in placing the story for you, and with best wishes, we are
Yours very truly,
The Writer's Literary Bureau,
per Jd
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Primary Item Type
Business Correspondence
Rights
This item is part of the Paul Laurence Dunbar House collection at Ohio History Connection, Columbus, Ohio. The collection contains items from 219 N. Summit St., Dayton, Ohio (later 219 N. Paul Laurence Dunbar St.), the home Dunbar purchased for his mother, Matilda J. Dunbar, in 1904. Paul Laurence Dunbar lived there until his death in 1906; Matilda lived there until her death in 1934. It is now the Paul Laurence Dunbar House Historic Site, part of the National Park Service.
Keywords
Paul Laurence Dunbar, primary sources, Black history, Black poets, prominent Ohioans
